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Officer Shoots Woman Waving Gun Outside Baltimore County Home

PIKESVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — A woman remains in critical condition after being shot by Baltimore County Police.

Officers were responding to a call about a suspicious person when they say she pulled out a handgun and began waving it around. Officers later determined that gun was fake. Officers say the gun was a metallic replica of a large caliber semi-automatic handgun.

Adam May reports.

On the relatively quiet street of Northbrook Road in the Park Heights neighborhood, a shattered window is evidence of the chaos that erupted at 2 a.m. Saturday morning.

“This is very unusual. We do believe this woman targeted this house,” said Officer Shawn Vinson, Baltimore County Police.

Baltimore County Police responded to a home on a call of a suspicious person. When the officer got to the house, a woman was standing in front of the home.

“He observed a woman with what appeared to be a large rock in her hand. As the officer approached the woman, she threw the rock and actually struck the window, breaking out a window in the house,” Vinson said.

The woman then pulled out a gun. Police say she ignored orders to drop her weapon. The officer then opened fire.

The woman was shot multiple times in the upper body and taken to a local hospital in serious condition.

WJZ tried speaking with a resident of the home, who politely states he couldn’t speak on the issue because of the Sabbath. He did not say why the woman was so upset.